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ft . ( ; - ) page 2 3, ‘Under the guise of directing traffic the police waved the cars of workers into the fields of one of the struck ranches therby pre- venting the pickets from talking te the worl:era in order to per= suade the latter to join the strike, 4, The unton members are constantly followed by the Sheriff's Department when they drive their cars anywhere and are constantly stopped by the deputies for no apparent reason or for minor traffic offenses which are tenuous at best, The union members are then required to show identification and ansver questions, The police also sit in their cars outside the union offices during meetings and on other occasions, 5. After work one day a car load of union menbers was following a bus full of workers to talk to then about joining the unien after the bus stepped, After following for a short distance the police got one car in front of the union members and one car behind them and then pulled them over, The police then requested all the union menbers to come down to the station where they were required to shov identification and submit to interrogation, Again this action by the police was for no apparent reason and no one was charged. The obvious effect, of course, of the police action was to separate the unton members from the bus and to prevent the union members from talxing to workers in the bus when it reached its destination, 6, Sevoral farm workers have been fired for signing union authorization cards which is a violation of Arizona lav, The police, after investi- gating, admitted clear violations had occurred, but refused to procéed =- with any prosecution on the grounds that they were "neutral" in this labor dispute. 7. <A Deputy went into the fields, obtained some grapes and came back to the picket line and ate them telling the pickets how good they - tasted, virtually taunting the pickets. Although this act is of course not itself illegal it is very symbolic in this dispute and . oe becomes quite meaningful in the context of the other acts, 8. A Deputy went up to some pickets on country dirt road and told then they had to walk twenty feet apart. When a picket responded that the law provided only that they not obstruct traffic, the deputy replied that the twenty foot rule was his “law” and if they‘wanted to get along with him they should obcy his "law." On another occasion a - Deputy told the pickets that they were not @ union end therefore had - no right to pickets During the picketing one.day, two Deputy Sheriffs each placed their . , cars at opposite en¢ds of the picket line and drove slowly toward . one another squeezing the pickets together until the pickets vere finally forced to move to another location, Some of the pickets claim _ that they were actually physically pushed by the Deputica'’ cars. “One .- woman became sufficiently frightened that she needed to be helped away -.--- from the scene. .